Memories of the 28th Century

I was planning to write about the problem of police acting as if they had the high justice, but everyone knows about that already. But the matter of eliminating government by laws and establishing government by men is more important, and the 2016 presidential election may be important to that.

There was an article on yahoo.com that suggested that Trump should be regarded as a real candidate, instead of as a joke. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald...153453944.html. I don't believe that anyone who had no experience in government has won that office, and I don't believe it would be easy for anyone completely lacking in experience to run the country, but it might be possible.

The interesting part of Trump being regarded as a real candidate is that it makes a four way or three way race look more likely. If the Republican Party nominates Trump, then where will the real Republicans go? Jeb Bush and one of the cohorts could easily start a right wing party that would include most Republicans, while the Tea Party and the less sophisticated Republicans could follow Trump. Ans, since one of the meaning of the word "trump" is to pass gas noisily, Donald is doing something appropriate. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dic.../english/trump

Developments on the Democrat side also came up today with the announcement that Biden would not run, citing grief over the death of his son earlier this year and that the others already have organizations in place. That leaves the Dems in a strange place. Hillary has all of her support already, and Biden supporters are not likely to fall in behind Hillary or Sanders, so what will they do? Bernie has already declared that he will not make a third party run, but will that hold up?

If the Dems nominate Hillary, and the reps nominate Trump, then about half of the normally faithful of both parties will have no one to vote for. The Republicans who might vote Libertarian will largely go for Trump, and the Dems who might have gone for a Socialist candidate will also be without a candidate, and many of them wouldn't vote for Hillary unless well paid. A party that would sit somewhere near where Eisenhower was could pick up the loose Republicans and a few of the Dems. A JFK could pick up the loose Democrats and miscellaneous independents. If Biden had looked at the polls that show him beating any Rep, while nearly all of them would beat Hillary, then he might have entered the race.

Either party could use an intelligent, feminist woman. I don't think much of her, and she seems to be unorganized, but Elizabeth Warren might be such a woman. It would be strange to have two women fighting for the center-left of the political spectrum, but it would be a fight, and they would generate interest and get all of the voters out.

On the other side of the spectrum things aren't quite so easy, but a Fiorina-Bush (or Fiorina-Cruz) ticket would look like traditional Republican fare, and having Carly Fiorina head the ticket would make it a three woman race. While Fiorina is a horrible manager who managed to almost completely destroy Hewlett-Packard, she is regarded as a woman who can get things done.

Another possibility would be having Carson take the third party route with Carly as his VP. Carson has some rather strange opinions, but he has a fairly strong following. Carson might be able to pick up all of the voters who believe conspiracy theories; that includes many people, and it might be enough to get him elected, but a doctor of medicine who doesn't accept the Theory of Evolution and a variety of other parts of science as fact will have a lot of trouble attracting intelligent or well educated voters.

All this aside, there is no doubt that I would be a much better President than any of the major candidates, but I don't have the money or organization necessary for running a campaign, but it would be even better, if I were appointed Emperor instead. That would eliminate this foolishness of elections and such.


According to https://iwl.me/ I write Like Mario Puzo.